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Six Black Instores: pop-grungers play for free

nine black alps 150 Manc-y grungers Nine Black Alps have announced a slew of in-store-type performances to promote upcoming single 'Unsatisfied', out next Monday (8/8).

August
8th Newcastle RPM Records (1pm)
9th London Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street (3pm)
10th Bristol Trinity Community Art Centre (1pm)
11th Birmingham Sunflower Lounge (1pm)
12th Preston Action Records (1pm)
13th Sheffield Royal Society For The Blind (1pm)

Okay, so they're not all in shops, but you get the idea: these aren't 'regular' gigs. The gigs are free, too.

'Unsatisfied' is Colin and Edith's single of the week, y'know; if that doesn't make you buy it, we don't see what will.



Six Black Instores: pop-grungers play for free

That Bristol one would be a real nightmare to get to for most people...

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yea, whos gonna try and get to the trinity for lunch time performance by a wank band. i guess it is school holidays tho

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where even is the Trinity centre? If I can walk to it I might go x

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Its in stokes croft. Right near the cube microplex if you've ever been there.

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Well I'm just off the Gloucester road so that sounds walkable to me. I just have to decide now whether it's worth getting out of bed for.

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It sure is walkable (though it might be a trek if you live up as far as Horfield)

I live just off Gloucester Rd near the Goose and that Scream pub. I'll be at work though. I really like NBA.

I say you should get out of bed, go, then let me know if I missed anything good.

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Ok that's where I am hahahaha that's very odd. I bet we use the same somerfield and everything.

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Oddly enough, I'll be living five minutes' walk from there from the end of August. But right now, getting there would be a pain. Especially with working and everything.

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The 'middle of the Gloucester Road indie massive' is born

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my girlfriend lives there. can i be in it? even though I don't like nine black alps much?

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I don't think liking nine black alps is a requirement. The more the merrier

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it's not the trinity centre in lawrence hill then?

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actually, you're right.

my bad

i know how I got confused, but nobody would care

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i was gonna say...bottom of stapleton rd way. isnt it. wooo bristol! i live next to smile but kind of above and next to it

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I've lived right near the Arches for the last 3 years, moved a bit further up on July 1st. Gloucester Road is the best place

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Can I still walk there? I don't really mind if it's a bit of a trek.
Also, where is smile? it sounds so familiar, which it probably is, yet I still have no idea.

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yea you can walk there but it is a bit of a trek. me, id get the bus. smile is pretty much under the arches (jusr before gl rd) crappy rip off mini 'supermarket'...so yea we probably use the same somerfield too. small world eh?

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and just to make it even smaller ive added 2 + 2 together and figured you study in Q block at frenchay...correct?

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Oh dear UWE sudent alert. I used to live next door to some UWE students, the smashed their front door off their house 4 times in a year. We never figured out how/why.

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oh dear? not everyone that goes there is, well im not really sure what your trying to imply we are but im pretty sure im not one. elitism between students always makes me laugh ;-)

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anyway, nine black alps....bloody awful!

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I'm not trying to imply anything in general. Just all the UWE students I've ever met were mad. Bristol students on the other hand are usually posh wankers. I must be one of the only proles in the whole uni.

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any of the Kingswood, Staple Hill, Hanham or Park Estate buses go past it. probably others too.

if you're gonna walk from the centre, its a long straight trek up through old market, take about half an hour at a guess.

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I saw that annoying self assessment bloke off the telly waiting in line in the bogs (the piss line, not the coke line - that's the hatchet). dirty bastard didn't wash his hands.

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I saw that annoying self assessment bloke off the telly waiting in line in the bogs at the cube (the piss line, not the coke line - that's the hatchet). dirty bugger didn't even wash his hands.

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sorry all, didn't show up first time (probably wasn't even worth it then).

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Preston! Fucking Preston!

Get in!!!

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This and the Maximo Park/Bloodarm/Kubichek show at 53 degrees in April must be about it for Preston's indie quota? Sadly I'm not being sarcastic for once...

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Awful live band, awful!

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I seen them twice and enjoyed it both times. WHat do you dislike about their live show?

Both times I've seen them they've been quiet between songs, but the songs are played well enough, and I like they way they drop their guitars and walk off very quickly at the end.

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They are getting better actually, still not gonna set your world on fire but not bad - give em a chance now they have had a chance to get a bit more confident onstage.

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I hope they play 'Get Free'.

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Was that the single before 'Lithium'?

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Six attempts at press coverage that has nothing to do with their music. Nevermind

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"I hope they play Get Free"

"Was that the single before Lithium?"

Ahhh, you guys and your banter

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9th London Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street (3pm)

Yay.

xMx

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Utterly sick of this band being compared to Nirvana and The Vines, there is no comparison. Notice how Kasabian were always compared to the Happy Mondays, Stone Roses and Primal Scream now you'd be laughed at and asked "whaaaat?!".The same will will happen with NBA and all the tone-deaf critics/haters will be eating their words.

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Why do think you'd be laughed at if you pinted out the screamingly obviousabout Kasabian?

I also don't see how you can say that there is no comparison between 9BA and Nirvana, especially if you've seen them live.

I would give the Subways last single my vote on the Vines front

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I wonder how many "haters" will eat their words when this band get dropped for "poor sales".